Born this week:
Armand Lanoux, France
Venedict Yerofeyev, Russia
Ulrich Plenzdorf, Germany
Erasmus, Netherlands
"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."
Kare Holt, Norway
Sylvia Plath, USA
"Nothing reaks quite as bad as a pile of unpublished manuscripts."
Evelyn Waugh, UK
"Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else."
Otto Flake, Germany
Jean Giraudoux, France
"As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum."
Jean Rostand, France
"Kill a man, one is a murderer; kill a million, a conqueror; kill them all, a God."
Carl Erik Soya, Denmark
Died this week:
Mary McCarthy, USA
"We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story."
Gerard Walschap, Belgium
Carlo Collodi, Italy
Pinocchio
Arkady Gaidar, Russia
Heinz Piontek, Germany
Willi Bredel, Germany
Walter Raleigh, UK
"Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred."
Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russia
"History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking."
Frances Burnett, UK
"And this, my lovely child, is your garden."
William Wharton, USA
"What is love? As far as I can tell, it is passion, admiration, and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you dont have to die to go to heaven."
Pio Baroja, Basque
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